The cross-faculty e-didactics team wishes you a happy and healthy New Year. We hope that you have had an excellent start into 2023!
We would like to invite you to the first Digital Teaching Community Day (DTC-Day) at the HSRW! The event will be held online on 29 March 2023 (09:00 – 16:15).
To enhance the understanding of your needs, expertise and wishes regarding digital teaching, we would like to ask you to participate in a short survey, which will take no more than 10 minutes for 13 questions. The survey is open until 31.01.2023, while the results will be presented at the DTC-Day.
The DTC-Day offers a programme that contains inspiring keynotes and a panel discussion on digitally supported teaching and learning activities at the HSRW.
On the day, you will have the opportunity to exchange your experiences, best practice examples, and innovative teaching/learning concepts with participants. Moreover, you will also have the chance to build up networks/interest groups across faculties. Details of the program will follow at a later point.
If you have any ideas, comments or suggestions about the DTC-Day, please contact us at edidaktik@hochschule-rhein-waal.de.
We look forward to an exciting DTC-Day with you!
All the Best,
your cross-faculty e-didactics team; Silke Gehrmann-Becker (FKU), Birte Heidkamp-Kergel (E-Learning Zentrum), Ramona Kirsch (FLS), Carmen Lewa (ZfQ), Lin Lin (FGÖ) and Naomi McLaughlan (FTB)
After the successful opening of the video lab in May 2022 and reintroduction to the audio lab, we, the video and audio lab team, would love to invite you to participate in our upcoming workshop series.
Registration is open until 16 June 2022. To find out more and to book your space, please use the QR code below.
Since March 16th 2022, you can access a weekly multimedia-based, digitalization learning bite via the T&B blog. The aim of the learning bites is to provide you with training and information about what software and apps you may want to give a try and how to utilize those, to create multimedia-based content in a time efficient way.
The learning bites will cover, for example, how to create audio clips, how to create visually engaging content, how to create blogs, how to create wikis to create participatory spaces for students, and how to create non-traditional quizzes.
Also starting on March 16th, I will conduct a matching Q&A sessions, to elaborate any questions you may have regarding the learning bite.
The sessions take place every Wednesday from 2-2.30pm.
I like the analogy of a buffet, a table full of a variety of items, since we all have different favourites. Like on a buffet table, you have the option of choosing what suits your preferences, wants and needs, as well as your overall aims of effective professional development.
Developing your skills and confidence in the appropriate and constructive use of digital technology can support and enhance your lectures and assessments.
Depending on your skill level and focus, you may just want some guidance, on how to utilize a specific software or tool, or to learn and try something completely new. You may also want to discuss how to engage your students in an interactive way, by using digital tools for your in-person, hybrid or online lectures. Equally, you may be interested to find out how to provide your students with additional multimedia based resources, without wasting hours of production time. Assessments, both formative and summative, may be another area, I can assist you with, for example by informing you about the latest options regarding digital tools, or to optimize the use of the software you currently use.
Apart from what type of software to use, you may be interested in finding out more about the following;
A virtual classroom
Gamification
Mobile Learning
Social Learning (social and collaborative learning)
Adaptive learning and personalized learning approaches
Tools to enable accessibly, including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Utilizing a mix of digital options can open up experiences and opportunities for your students. Providing your students with quality assessments, personalised feedback and data to inform subsequent learning and teaching, can deliver high quality learning in a digital context.
Using digital tools and services, which better align with students’ experience of today’s digital world can help you to provide learners with access to a range of digital resources which allow ‘anytime/ anywhere learning’ and build a level of digital skills which will be vital in today’s digital world.
Over time you will be able to reduce your workload by using appropriate digital tools, which frees up time for personalised feedback and time for focusing on next steps.
Furthermore, we can discuss how you may be able to strategically and productively collaborate and network with colleagues, by building a digital pool of multimedia based resources, to save time overall.
I hope that the buffet approach enables you to make informed decisions about digital technology selection and use in lecturing.
Please reach out to start a conversation!
All the Best,
Naomi Mc Laughlan
P.S.: Here is a list of the ‘Digitalization Buffet’ content you may be interested in;
Record audio clips
Create visually engaging content
Create blogs
Create wikis to create participatory spaces for students
Use Social bookmarking websites curate and share resources with your cohort
Create Engaging presentations
Create digital portfolios
Create non-traditional quizzes
Edit imagery
Take photographs and build an image library
Create info graphics and posters
Edit audio clips
Create interactive PDFs
Produce virtual tours
Record virtual labs
Plan, create and conduct virtual field trips
Live stream
Edit and enhance live stream content
Create content for flipped learning sessions formative assessments
Use interactive presentation software for
Plan, create and conduct E-assessments
Web editing
Utilize software for summative assessments
Secure information processing
Data protection
Create annotated, interactive, and engaging video content
